I get the feeling that ARM and RISC platforms are going to screw around for so long that by the time you can buy a system with one in them Intel and AMD will have caught up on performance per watt and made them unneeded.
If you're going to add your own instructions anyways, then why go risc-v over arm?
Their success with M1 and M2 aren't hugely generalisable.
Even for RISC, you can buy some boards but I assume those don’t count. But at a regular consumer level, there’s tons of ARM computers in use right now, even if they’re restricted to only a few companies who make them.
I think the same may happen with smartphones/TVs/tablets/etc. Billions of these devices are sold each year, compared to perhaps tens of millions of high-end desktops or servers.
RISC-V I don't know about, but having fixed length instructions is theoretically safer.
If you are thinking of a tower though, there may in fact not be any. That is more of a statement about this desktop market than the RISC one though.
https://cdn.statcdn.com/Statistic/270000/272595-blank-355.pn...
Plum forgot about the iMac.